i'm curious, what are you translating? sounds like it's classical greek, nothing strange like herodot or anything. <br /><br /><br />Quote:<br />what does the "aposxwmen" mean, how does it fit?<br />My guess is Pl., 1st.p, Act. Subj., Pres. (luwmen)<br /> <br />i think it's 1st person pl. ,conjunctive, aorist act. of ap exo. it's certainly not pres. as that would be [face=SPIonic]a)pexomen[/face]<br />[face=SPIonic]e)xw[/face] is present tens root but in aorist it has a different root ([face=SPIonic]esxon[/face]). the augment epsilon disappears in conjuctive.<br />

I am just translating JWW First Greek Book, and I don't know what sources he has chosen. (Roughly Paragraph 614 I believe.) Still not confident enough to jump into the Anabasis, so I might stick with the Grammars and get a refresher with North & Hillard's Greek Prose Composition.<br /><br />Thanks for your help everyone.

the text book we were using at school was "Ars Graeca", but that was only for 2 years like, now we just translate.<br /><br />are you sure you want to start with Xenophon? i heard it's mostly very boring, like military stuff mostly. maybe you'd be better with something like Lysias (which is what i started with). it wasn't boring (though i personally didn't enjoy translating his speeches much, and failed the exam that term).<br />but that was just me like, everyone else much prefered Lysias to Plato.